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They must have not been eating their fish at this time ?

[/QUOTE]maybe not --- or maybe they'd been eating so much fish they had no ADDers left to be difficult and go "hmmmm - not sure i quite agree with this"

everyone thinks ADD is such a negative thing but i am pretty sure there is a quote from Hitler where he talks about being able to get people to do almost anything - through fear and/or indoctrination but there being one group of people who simply will INSIST on thinking for themselves.  i always used to believe that group were ADDers but now, having been on this site for a while, i am actually not so sure anymore.

i used to think ADDers were an antidote to fascism - but now i don't know.  ADDers seem just as capable to be blindly patriotic and happily flag-waving and doing duty to their country while shoving seven-year old girls into gas chambers.

i am still pro-ADD though.  i think it will be a sad society that has no ADDers left in it.  uncreative, sterile everything about "happiness" and quid pro quo --- who gives a flying banana about happiness!?!  what about morals and principles - bigger things in life than some temporary fleeting pleasure or a somatic-medicated 'happiness' which in reality seems just a dulling of ones soul?   this constant quest for pleasure...! anyway it's always part of a duality - pleasure and pain are joined at the hip.  what a fraud!

oops i am in a negative frame of mind today.  just ignore me.

but how depressing it all is.  maybe it will all work out for the best - who knows?  maybe all these medicated ADDers will be a wonder-revolution or maybe they will just turn into more grist for the mill.  constant meaningless activity not knowing why or wherefore or even caring or questioning because they are "happy".  bleurgh.

never mind it's probably all perfect and just right.  why i should care if americans turn into a souless, creative vacuum anyway - all thinking they are being 'wonderfully creative' when they pump out their souless, miserable technically excellent art which is entirely meaningless and pointless.  not my country!

as long as it doesn't come over here.  which it will.  inevitably.

yeuch!  bleurgh! ugh!  how hateful it all is.

maybe it really will go the other way - maybe it is for the good and these medications are a revolution in allowing creative people to create and function all at the same time.  perhaps i am just a miserable cynic in not believing that.

it is not as thought i want any child to suffer --- but half of ADDers suffering is imposed absolutely unnecessarily imposed by an intolerant society.  that's for sure.  perhaps ADDers are like the canaries miners used to take down the mines with them --- just that much more sensitive that they start dying and failing before the normal population as warning that something is going seriously wrong with society.  only now we don't heed that warning.  we just medicate it away.  oh, it's not a good day for me today - that's all.

perhaps we are indeed flawed.  hooray for the extinction of ADDers - what a pest and general useless waste of space in society they are/were.  ugh.

and just re-reading that - i can see it could be read as i was saying only ADDers are anti-fascist which is patently crap because billions of normals are also and would never become Nazis or do anything dreadful like that.  what i meant was i thought by definition ADDers would be anti-fascist but i can see that in fact i was entirely mistaken on that - as on so many things.  we live and learn.  it's all good.


chjones39045.2662268519you know it doesn't matter ---- it really doesn't matter.  i had intended not to post any more negative posts because that doesn't help anything.  so to balance out that one here is a more positive one:

LOVE IS THE PANACEA   He who has no love cannot know God for God is love. Love is the greatest force in this world. Love is immortal. Love is God. Where love is there God is. Therefore become an embodiment of love. Love is God. Love is light. Light is wisdom. Wisdom is divine life it is oneness, unity.   The deeper a man's love of God is, the greater is his spiritual knowledge. The final consummation of the love of God is union with God. Love of God is not easily acquired by self effort it is inborn in man by virtue of his spiritual evolution.   Love God alone. Be detached and renounce everything for the sake of love of God. Cosmic love expects not any reward. It excludes none but includes all. Develop more and more pure divine love. Then the inner light will shine more brightly. Cultivate divine love. This selfless love is a great treasure a pearl of great price.   Cultivate an abiding faith in God's love, mercy and grace. The lover himself becomes the beloved of his heart. Their love is so deep and intense that they merge in each other and then again re emerge. They are the two inseparable aspects of the one.   Love envies not. Love resents not. Love revenges not. Love bargains not. God in his boundless love and mercy promptly chastises proud and arrogant persons, thus paving the way for a return to humility.   God reveals himself daily to every human being but man shuts his eyes and does not see Him. Infinite is God. Infinite are His aspects and infinite are the ways to reach Him. The divine being is a living reality, a powerful presence that responds to our prayers, an all pervading delight of existence that sustains our life.   Find God within yourself in silence.   Love is the cure for all evil. The power of love can transform the universe which is fettered in chains of hatred. Love is all purifying and all redeeming. Love is the greatest purifying force in the world. Love is the greatest creative force in the world.

anyway as i'm talking to myself here ----

i found some quotes from hitler but not the one i was looking for

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
 


omega 3's are fantastic.
 Here in germany it is even given in infusion post -surgery because people heal faster.   (?)

Japan consumes tons of fish. I'll have to check their crime figures but this is no guarantee it's caused by fish.
Something smells "fishy" !! jk...

Fish heads, fish heads, yummy yummy fish heads, fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum!


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They must have not been eating their fish at this time ?

Mass killings

R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military "murdered near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably almost 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture."[5]

In China alone, during 1937-45, approximately 9.13 million civilians were killed, and there were another 8.4 million Chinese civilian casualties. (See Chinese Casualties in the Sino-Japanese War.) The most infamous incident during this period was the Nanjing Massacre of 1937-38, when, according to the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Japanese Army massacred 260,000 civilians and prisoners of war.[6]

[edit] Experiments on human beings

Special military units conducted physiological experiments on civilians and POWs. One of the most infamous was Unit 731. Victims were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, amputations, and were used to test biological weapons, among other experiments.

To determine the treatment of frostbite, prisoners were taken outside in freezing weather and left with exposed arms, periodically drenched with water until frozen solid. The arm was later amputated; the doctor would repeat the process on the victim’s upper arm to the shoulder. After both arms were gone, the doctors moved on to the legs until only a head and torso remained. The victim was then used for plague and pathogens experiments.[7]

[edit] Use of chemical weapons

According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, Emperor Hirohito authorized by specific orders (rinsanmei) the use of chemical weapons in China.[8] For example, during the invasion of Wuhan from August to October 1938, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions, despite Article 171 of the Versailles Peace Treaty and a resolution adopted by the League of Nations on May 14, condemning the use of poison gas by Japan.

[edit] Preventable famine

Deaths caused by the diversion of resources to the Japanese military in occupied countries are also regarded as war crimes by many people. Millions of civilians in southern Asia — especially Vietnam and the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia), both of which were major rice-growing countries — died during a preventable famine in 1944–45. (See, for example, the article on the Vietnamese Famine of 1945.)

[edit] Torture of POWs

Japanese imperial forces are also reported to have utilized widespread use of torture on prisoners, usually in an effort to gather military intelligence quickly.[citation needed] Tortured prisoners were often later executed. A former Japanese Army officer who served in China, Uno Shintaro, stated:

The major means of getting intelligence was to extract information by interrogating prisoners. Torture was an unavoidable necessity. Murdering and burying them follows naturally. You do it so you won't be found out. I believed and acted this way because I was convinced of what I was doing. We carried out our duty as instructed by our masters. We did it for the sake of our country. From our filial obligation to our ancestors. On the battlefield, we never really considered the Chinese humans. When you're winning, the losers look really miserable. We concluded that the Yamato [i.e. Japanese] race was superior.[9]

After the war, some 148 Koreans were convicted of war crimes by Allied war trials. Most prominent was Lieutenant General Hong Sa-Ik, who orchestrated the organization of prisoner of war camps in Southeast Asia.[10]

[edit] Forced labour

The Japanese military's use of forced labour, by Asian civilians and POWs also caused many deaths. According to a joint study by historians including Zhifen Ju, Mitsuyochi Himeta, Toru Kubo and Mark Peattie, more than 10 million Chinese civilians were mobilized by the Kôa-in (Japanese Asia Development Board) for forced labour. [11] According to Himeta, 2.7 million Chinese civilians died in the Sanko sakusen (scorched earth policy) implemented in 1942 by Yasuji Okamura. More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Burma Railway.

The Geneva Convention exempted POWs of sergeant rank or higher from manual labour, and stipulated that prisoners performing work should be provided with extra rations and other essentials. According to historian Akira Fujiwara, Emperor Hirohito personally ratified the decision to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners of war in the directive of 5 August 1937. This notification also advised staff officers to stop using the term "prisoners of war".[12] During World War II such rules were largely respected in German POW camps, except in the case of Soviet POWs. However, Japan was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention at the time, and Japanese forces did not follow the convention.

Where did you find the ad for the milk?

That's hilarious!!!

That's too too toot many words for an ADHDer.

Anyone care to synopsize?

What are they saying, eat oil, be calm?

Drink milk, kill people?

I liked the love God part.

That's easy to understand.

Loving people, that's harder.

You must worship a loving god then. Very nice.

That is the kind of go(o)d I prefer but let's get back to "fishy tales" or lets enjoy contemplating Hitler's mad mind .


fish&crime&japanese-Hitler&god-milk mustache= ADD















worldisround39045.600775463i hope it is ok to post this twice (i already posted in Alternative and Complementary) as i thought it might also be of interest to adult ADDers:

Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat
Courtesy - JoAnn Guest.
Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional
deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive behaviour

Felicity Lawrence
Tuesday October 17, 2006
The Guardian
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1924356, 00.html

That Dwight Demar is able to sit in front of us, sober, calm, and
employed, is "a miracle", he declares in the cadences of a prayer-
meeting sinner. He has been rocking his 6ft 2in bulk to and fro
while delivering a confessional account of his past into the middle
distance.

He wants us to know what has saved him after 20 years on the
streets: "My dome is working. They gave me some kind of pill and I
changed. Me, myself and I, I changed."

Demar has been in and out of prison so many times he has lost count
of his convictions. "Being drunk, being disorderly, trespass,
assault and battery; you name it, I did it. How many times I been in
jail? I don't know, I was locked up so much it was my second home."
Demar has been taking part in a clinical trial at the US
government's National Institutes for Health, near Washington. The
study is investigating the effects of omega-3 fatty acid supplements
on the brain, and the pills that have effected Demar's "miracle" are
doses of fish oil.

The results emerging from this study are at the cutting edge of the
debate on crime and punishment. In Britain we lock up more people
than ever before. Nearly 80,000 people are now in our prisons, which
reached their capacity this week.

But the new research calls into question the very basis of criminal
justice and the notion of culpability. It suggests that individuals
may not always be responsible for their aggression. Taken together
with a study in a high-security prison for young offenders in the
UK, it shows that violent behaviour may be attributable at least in
part to nutritional deficiencies.

The UK prison trial at Aylesbury jail showed that when young men
there were fed multivitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids,
the number of violent offences they committed in the prison fell by
37%. Although no one is suggesting that poor diet alone can account
for complex social problems, the former chief inspector of prisons
Lord Ramsbotham says that he is now "absolutely convinced that there
is a direct link between diet and antisocial behaviour, both that
bad diet causes bad behaviour and that good diet prevents it."

The Dutch government is currently conducting a large trial to see if
nutritional supplements have the same effect on its prison
population. And this week, new claims were made that fish oil had
improved behaviour and reduced aggression among children with some
of the most severe behavioural difficulties in the UK.

Deficiency

For the clinician in charge of the US study, Joseph Hibbeln, the
results of his trial are not a miracle, but simply what you might
predict if you understand the biochemistry of the brain and the
biophysics of the brain cell membrane. His hypothesis is that modern
industrialised diets may be changing the very architecture and
functioning of the brain.

We are suffering, he believes, from widespread diseases of
deficiency. Just as vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, deficiency
in the essential fats the brain needs and the nutrients needed to
metabolise those fats is causing of a host of mental problems from
depression to aggression. Not all experts agree, but if he is right,
the consequences are as serious as they could be. The pandemic of
violence in western societies may be related to what we eat or fail
to eat. Junk food may not only be making us sick, but mad and bad
too.

In Demar's case the aggression has blighted many lives. He has
attacked his wife. "Once she put my TV out the door, I snapped off
and smacked her." His last spell in prison was for a particularly
violent assault. "I tried to kill a person. Then I knew something
need be done because I was half a hundred and I was either going to
kill somebody or get killed."

Demar's brain has blanked out much of that last attack. He can
remember that a man propositioned him for sex, but the details of
his own response are hazy.

When he came out of jail after that, he bought a can of beer and
seemed headed for more of the same until a case worker who had seen
adverts for Hibbeln's trial persuaded him to take part.

The researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, which is part of NIH, had placed adverts for aggressive
alcoholics in the Washington Post in 2001. Some 80 volunteers came
forward and have since been enrolled in the double blind study. They
have ranged from homeless people to a teacher to a former secret
service agent. Following a period of three weeks' detoxification on
a locked ward, half were randomly assigned to 2 grams per day of the
omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA for three months, and half to
placebos of fish-flavoured corn oil.

An earlier pilot study on 30 patients with violent records found
that those given omega-3 supplements had their anger reduced by one-
third, measured by standard scales of hostility and irritability,
regardless of whether they were relapsing and drinking again. The
bigger trial is nearly complete now and Dell Wright, the nurse
administering the pills, has seen startling changes in those on the
fish oil rather than the placebo. "When Demar came in there was
always an undercurrent of aggression in his behaviour. Once he was
on the supplements he took on the ability not to be impulsive. He
kept saying, 'This is not like me'."

Demar has been out of trouble and sober for a year now. He has a
girlfriend, his own door key, and was made employee of the month at
his company recently. Others on the trial also have long histories
of violence but with omega-3 fatty acids have been able for the
first time to control their anger and aggression. J, for example,
arrived drinking a gallon of rum a day and had 28 scars on his hand
from punching other people. Now he is calm and his cravings have
gone. W was a 19st barrel of a man with convictions for assault and
battery. He improved dramatically on the fish oil and later told
doctors that for the first time since the age of five he had managed
to go three months without punching anyone in the head.

Threat to society

Hibbeln is a psychiatrist and physician, but as an employee of the
US government at the NIH he wears the uniform of a commander, with
his decorations for service pinned to his chest. As we queued to get
past the post-9/11 security checks at the NIH federal base, he
explained something of his view of the new threat to society.

Over the last century most western countries have undergone a
dramatic shift in the composition of their diets in which the omega-
3 fatty acids that are essential to the brain have been flooded out
by competing omega-6 fatty acids, mainly from industrial oils such
as soya, corn, and sunflower. In the US, for example, soya oil
accounted for only 0.02% of all calories available in 1909, but by
2000 it accounted for 20%. Americans have gone from eating a
fraction of an ounce of soya oil a year to downing 25lbs (11.3kg)
per person per year in that period. In the UK, omega-6 fats from
oils such as soya, corn, and sunflower accounted for 1% of energy
supply in the early 1960s, but by 2000 they were nearly 5%. These
omega-6 fatty acids come mainly from industrial frying for
takeaways, ready meals and snack foods such as crisps, chips,
biscuits, ice-creams and from margarine. Alcohol, meanwhile,
depletes omega-3s from the brain.

To test the hypothesis, Hibbeln and his colleagues have mapped the
growth in consumption of omega-6 fatty acids from seed oils in 38
countries since the 1960s against the rise in murder rates over the
same period. In all cases there is an unnerving match. As omega-6
goes up, so do homicides in a linear progression. Industrial
societies where omega-3 consumption has remained high and omega-6
low because people eat fish, such as Japan, have low rates of murder
and depression.

Of course, all these graphs prove is that there is a striking
correlation between violence and omega 6-fatty acids in the diet.
They don't prove that high omega-6 and low omega-3 fat consumption
actually causes violence. Moreover, many other things have changed
in the last century and been blamed for rising violence - exposure
to violence in the media, the breakdown of the family unit and
increased consumption of sugar, to take a few examples. But some of
the trends you might expect to be linked to increased violence -
such as availability of firearms and alcohol, or urbanisation - do
not in fact reliably predict a rise in murder across countries,
according to Hibbeln.

There has been a backlash recently against the hype surrounding
omega-3 in the UK from scientists arguing that the evidence remains
sketchy. Part of the backlash stems from the eagerness of some
supplement companies to suggest that fish oils work might wonders
even on children who have no behavioural problems.

Alan Johnson, the education secretary, appeared to be jumping on the
bandwagon recently when he floated the idea of giving fish oils to
all school children. The idea was quickly knocked down when the food
standards agency published a review of the evidence on the effect of
nutrition on learning among schoolchildren and concluded there was
not enough to conclude much, partly because very few scientific
trials have been done.

Professor John Stein, of the department of physiology at Oxford
University, where much of the UK research on omega-3 fatty acid
deficiencies has been based, agrees: "There is only slender evidence
that children with no particular problem would benefit from fish
oil. And I would always say [for the general population] it's better
to get omega-3 fatty acids by eating fish, which carries all the
vitamins and minerals needed to metabolise them."

However, he believes that the evidence from the UK prison study and
from Hibbeln's research in the US on the link between nutritional
deficiency and crime is " strong", although the mechanisms involved
are still not fully understood.

Hibbeln, Stein and others have been investigating what the
mechanisms of a causal relationship between diet and aggression
might be. This is where the biochemistry and biophysics comes in.

Essential fatty acids are called essential because humans cannot
make them but must obtain them from the diet. The brain is a fatty
organ - it's 60% fat by dry weight, and the essential fatty acids
are what make part of its structure, making up 20% of the nerve
cells' membranes. The synapses, or junctions where nerve cells
connect with other nerve cells, contain even higher concentrations
of essential fatty acids - being made of about 60% of the omega-3
fatty acid DHA.

Communication between the nerve cells depends on neurotransmitters,
such as serotonin and dopamine, docking with receptors in the nerve
cell membrane.

Omega-3 DHA is very long and highly flexible. When it is
incorporated into the nerve cell membrane it helps make the membrane
itself elastic and fluid so that signals pass through it
efficiently. But if the wrong fatty acids are incorporated into the
membrane, the neurotransmitters can't dock properly. We know from
many other studies what happens when the neurotransmitter systems
don't work efficiently. Low serotonin levels are known to predict an
increased risk of suicide, depression and violent and impulsive
behaviour. And dopamine is what controls the reward processes in the
brain.

Laboratory tests at NIH have shown that the composition of tissue
and in particular of the nerve cell membrane of people in the US is
different from that of the Japanese, who eat a diet rich in omega-3
fatty acids from fish. Americans have cell membranes higher in the
less flexible omega-6 fatty acids, which appear to have displaced
the elastic omega-3 fatty acids found in Japanese nerve cells.

Hibbeln's theory is that because the omega-6 fatty acids compete
with the omega-3 fatty acids for the same metabolic pathways, when
omega-6 dominates in the diet, we can't convert the omega-3s to DHA
and EPA, the longer chain versions we need for the brain. What seems
to happen then is that the brain picks up a more rigid omega-6 fatty
acid DPA instead of DHA to build the cell membranes - and they don't
function so well.

Other experts blame the trans fats produced by partial hydrogenation
of industrial oils for processed foods. Trans fats have been shown
to interfere with the synthesis of essentials fats in foetuses and
infants. Minerals such as zinc and the B vitamins are needed to
metabolise essential fats, so deficiencies in these may be playing
an important part too.

There is also evidence that deficiencies in DHA/EPA at times when
the brain is developing rapidly - in the womb, in the first 5 years
of life and at puberty - can affect its architecture permanently.
Animal studies have shown that those deprived of omega-3 fatty acids
over two generations have offspring who cannot release dopamine and
serotonin so effectively.

"The extension of all this is that if children are left with low
dopamine as a result of early deficits in their own or their
mother's diets, they cannot experience reward in the same way and
they cannot learn from reward and punishment. If their serotonin
levels are low, they cannot inhibit their impulses or regulate their
emotional responses," Hibbeln points out.

Mental health

Here too you have one possible factor in cycles of deprivation
(again, no one is suggesting diet is the only factor) and why
criminal behaviour is apparently higher among lower socio-economic
groups where nutrition is likely to be poorer.

These effects of the industrialisation of the diet on the brain were
also predicted in the 1970s by a leading fats expert in the UK,
Professor Michael Crawford, now at London's Metropolitan University.
He established that DHA was structural to the brain and foresaw that
deficiencies would lead to a surge in mental health and behavioural
problems - a prediction borne out by the UK's mental health figures.

It was two decades later before the first study of the effect of
diet on behaviour took place in a UK prison. Bernard Gesch, now a
senior researcher at Stein's Oxford laboratory, first became
involved with nutrition and its relationship to crime as a director
of the charity Natural Justice in northwest England. He was
supervising persistent offenders in the community and was struck by
their diets. He later set out to test the idea that poor diet might
cause antisocial behaviour and crime in the maximum security
Aylesbury prison.

His study, a placebo-controlled double blind randomised trial, took
231 volunteer prisoners and assigned half to a regime of
multivitamin, mineral and essential fatty acid supplements and half
to placebos. The supplement aimed to bring the prisoners' intakes of
nutrients up to the level recommended by government. It was not
specifically a fatty acid trial, and Gesch points out that nutrition
is not pharmacology but involves complex interactions of many
nutrients.

Prison trial

Aylesbury was at the time a prison for young male offenders, aged 17
to 21, convicted of the most serious crimes. Trevor Hussey was then
deputy governor and remembers it being a tough environment. "It was
a turbulent young population. They had problems with their anger.
They were all crammed into a small place and even though it was well
run you got a higher than normal number of assaults on staff and
other prisoners."

Although the governor was keen on looking at the relationship
between diet and crime, Hussey remembers being sceptical himself at
the beginning of the study. The catering manager was good, and even
though prisoners on the whole preferred white bread, meat and
confectionery to their fruit and veg, the staff tried to encourage
prisoners to eat healthily, so he didn't expect to see much of a
result.

But quite quickly staff noticed a significant drop in the number of
reported incidents of bad behaviour. "We'd just introduced a policy
of 'earned privileges' so we thought it must be that rather than a
few vitamins, but we used to joke 'maybe it's Bernard's pills'."

But when the trial finished it became clear that the drop in
incidents of bad behaviour applied only to those on the supplements
and not to those on the placebo.

The results, published in 2002, showed that those receiving the
extra nutrients committed 37% fewer serious offences involving
violence, and 26% fewer offences overall. Those on the placebos
showed no change in their behaviour. Once the trial had finished the
number of offences went up by the same amount. The office the
researchers had used to administer nutrients was restored to a
restraint room after they had left.

"The supplements improved the functioning of those prisoners. It was
clearly something significant that can't be explained away. I was
disappointed the results were not latched on to. We put a lot of
effort into improving prisoners' chances of not coming back in, and
you measure success in small doses."

Gesch believes we should be rethinking the whole notion of
culpability. The overall rate of violent crime in the UK has risen
since the 1950s, with huge rises since the 1970s. "Such large
changes are hard to explain in terms of genetics or simply changes
of reporting or recording crime. One plausible candidate to explain
some of the rapid rise in crime could be changes in the brain's
environment. What would the future have held for those 231 young men
if they had grown up with better nourishment?" Gesch says.

He said he was currently unable to comment on any plans for future
research in prisons, but studies with young offenders in the
community are being planned.

For Hibbeln, the changes in our diet in the past century are "a very
large uncontrolled experiment that may have contributed to the
societal burden of aggression, depression and cardiovascular death".
To ask whether we have enough evidence to change diets is to put the
question the wrong way round. Whoever said it was safe to change
them so radically in the first place?

Young offender's diet

One young offender had been sentenced by the British courts on 13
occasions for stealing trucks in the early hours of the morning.

Bernard Gesch recorded the boy's daily diet as follows:

Breakfast: nothing (asleep)

Mid morning: nothing (asleep)

Lunchtime: 4 or 5 cups of coffee with milk and 2½ heaped teaspoons
of sugar

Mid afternoon: 3 or 4 cups of coffee with milk and 2½ heaped sugars

Tea: chips, egg, ketchup, 2 slices of white bread, 5 cups of tea or
coffee with milk and sugar

Evening: 5 cups of tea or coffee with milk and sugar, 20 cigarettes,
£2 worth of sweets, cakes and if money available 3 or 4 pints of
beer.



Fascinating!  I'd been toying with the idea of starting myself and my son on omega-3s and I think this just convinced me.Letem have funding for a few years;if no success,try something else,maybe carp crawling therapy;don"t of course know that it"ll work,but it"s alright to intuit, ain"t it?